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Interference with Time Machine backups

SteveI — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:12:46 +0000

I've had Bitdefender for several years now and it just started preventing my Time Machine backups, any solutions for this?

Bitdefender blocks Time Machine back up with MacOS Monterey

jhferguson5 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:13:19 +0000

There was a similar discussion late last year and it looks like it's closed. The discussion ended with a post that this issue was fixed; only it has surfaced again. I maintain two time machine backups; one to a WD drive, connected via my home network, and the other to a Lacie portable drive, which is disconnected except to do a backup. The time machine backups to my WD drive work fine. Starting yesterday, I'm now getting the following error when I try to backup to my Lacie drive:

"An unauthorized app attempted to access your backups. App: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd

We blocked the app to prevent it from altering the content of your backups."

What was the previous fix, and is anyone else experiencing this again?

Protect Time Machine on external drive when other external drives are NOT protected?

Alan2 — Mon, 24 May 2021 16:24:18 +0000

I'm writing to ask about a potential huge flaw in protection of Time Machine by Bitdefender.

I'm using Bitdefender Small Office Security, but the same issue applies to other Bitdefender products for Macs. Bitdefender allows you to select specific folders to be protected in the case of ransomware. However, you can NOT select folders on a drive that is not the main internal Macintosh HD drive. I have an extra (external) drive that is sold by Apple to be installed inside a Mac. But because it is seen by Finder as an additional or external drive, all of the folders on that drive are greyed out by Bitdefender and none of those can be selected for protection with regards to ransomware.

Since Bitdefender can't protect folders on an external drive from ransomware, does Bitdefender, in point of fact, protect Time Machine if it is also on an external drive? Whether the Time Machine option is turned on or off is kind of pointless, as you can't tell if your specific Time Machine drive is in fact protected.

If Bitdefender is protecting Time Machine on an external drive, then why don't you protect other folders on external drives?

I'm looking for an official response from Bitdefender, not from a forum participant. If an official response is not provided in the next few days, I will delete and remove the product and seek a refund.

And I suggest that no one should purchase this product without an official and written response to the above questions. At least not if protection of Time Machine on an external drive is important to you, which is the only way Time Machine should be installed.

General advice

LisaT — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:20:50 +0000

I just switched from Avira to Sophos, and now I'm done with the free softwares since they didn't go along with Time Machine, so I went for Bitdefender. I'm using a MacBook Pro, a Time Capsule where I do Time Machine bakups and also store media files.

Additionally I also make off-site backups through Crashplan.

I noticed that Time Machine sometimes makes longer stops. Don't know if this is a Bitdefender issue or an issue of Time Machine itself.

So besides the Time Machine issue, I wonder if there are some general advice for me and my use of Bitdefender? Any settings I should turn on or off? Any exclusions and so on?

Thanks in advance!

Encrypted Time Machine Disk

cyber3d — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 03:57:24 +0000

So, my question is if I encrypt my time machine backup disk on the MAC today and I get a ransomware preload infection (which activates in say 7 days) will the ransomware still be on the backup disk just waiting for the 7 days to come up and install itself if I ever need to restore my backup? My assumption is that Bitdefender can not find a dormant ransomware infection, only one that is active. is this a probable situation?